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# ministres — French to English

How French *ministres* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: ministres (70 883). By style: everyday 9 · literary 1 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 7 132 · legal and administrative 1 121 · UN documents 62 612.

## ministers

Used about 66 594 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 6 835 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 051 · UN documents ≈ 58 699). Forms: minister, ministers.

- Tebboune tient régulièrement une réunion du Conseil des **ministres**.
  Tebboune regularly holds a council of **ministers**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10101284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10101284) [\#11838097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11838097))

- Benaja, fils de Jehojada, était chef des Kéréthiens et des Péléthiens; et les fils de David étaient **ministres** d’état.
  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief **ministers**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 8:18)

- Les **ministres** Künast et Brinkhorst ont pris cette initiative.
  **Ministers** Künast and Brinkhorst took the initiative instead.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 178964)

- LE CONSEIL DES **MINISTRES** ACP-UE,
  THE ACP-EU COUNCIL OF **MINISTERS**,
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2795598)

- 2. Le Conseil des **ministres**
  2. The Council of **Ministers**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 2035578)

## council

Used about 1 328 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 1 304). Meaning: [council in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/council/).

- La présente directive promeut les droits de l'enfant, en tenant compte des lignes directrices du Comité des **ministres** du Conseil de l'Europe sur une justice adaptée aux enfants.
  This Directive promotes the rights of the child, taking into account the Guidelines of the **Council** of Europe on child-friendly justice.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3899552)

- Dans le domaine militaire, le Conseil des **ministres** a examiné les activités de coopération militaire au cours de la période écoulée et a exprimé sa satisfaction face aux progrès accomplis.
  In the military sphere, the Ministerial **Council** was informed of progress in military cooperation during the preceding period.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 13041770)

## meeting

Used about 149 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 149). Meaning: [meeting in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/meeting/).

- Objet: Réunion des **ministres** du commerce de l'OMC à Singapour
  Subject: WTO ministerial **meeting** in Singapore
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1653815)

## cabinet

Used about 24 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 23). Meaning: [cabinet in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cabinet/).

- Le conseil des **ministres** se réunit aujourd'hui pour discuter de la crise.
  The **Cabinet** is meeting today to discuss the crisis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#280759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/280759) [\#1069060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1069060))

- Seules ces dernières entreprises sont visées par les aides d’État introduites par la décision du Conseil belge des **ministres** du 1er décembre 2000.
  The State aid introduced by the Belgian **Cabinet**’s decision of 1 December 2000 concerns only the component and engine manufacturers.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1120153)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- suivant ce que nous ont transmis ceux qui ont été des témoins oculaires dès le commencement et sont devenus des **ministres** de la parole,
  even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 1:2)

- Et Jéhu frappa tous ceux qui restaient de la maison d’Achab à Jizreel, tous ses grands, ses familiers et ses **ministres**, sans en laisser échapper un seul.
  So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 10:11)

- Il nous a aussi rendus capables d’être **ministres** d’une nouvelle alliance, non de la lettre, mais de l’esprit; car la lettre tue, mais l’esprit vivifie.
  who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 3:6)

## Grammar

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